PET - Testicular Cancer
50-year-old male with cancer of the testis.Patient could not have surgery due
to lymph node involvement in pelvis, so radiation and chemotherapy were performed.
Patient referred to PET to assess progress of therapy.Whole-body, FDG PET scan
found a focal area of uptake in the right lung.After PET found the lung lesion,
a much stronger cycle of radiation and chemotherapy was initiated. After this
round, CT and echo scans of the liver were both negative. However, a second PET
scan found liver lesions, a lung lesion, and hypermetabolic areas in the abdominal
lymph nodes. The patient died a few months later.
Courtesy of Giorgio Ferlin, M.D. · Ospedale di Castelfranco Veneto
- TV - Italy. And CTI, Inc. SIEMENS - CTI
